Poverty Conference and Themes. Discussion paper: Reflection and Draft Action Plan for Fair for All Partners

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1 Poverty Conference and Themes Discussion paper: Reflection and Draft Action Plan for Fair for All Partners What can we do to address poverty? Feedback and evidence (You said ) from: Aye We Can Conference, October 2017 Challenge Poverty Week roadshows and discussions Fair for All steering group Examples of what we are doing Ongoing work across the CPP. Summary of attitudinal perceptions and feedback More awareness raising is required via media campaigns for services and opportunities which address poverty. We need to link more organisations together with poverty as common goal. Collective responsibility is key in communities. Council policy barriers and red tape need to be reduced. Sensible and supportive regulations are required More planning for the future should focus on how things are set up for sustainability. Barriers and increased poverty within local communities arise when people don t have opportunities to come together. We should consider physical gaps when designing services. Transport poverty is real and we should ensure that venues are within walking distance or ensure alternatives. We need more good news stories to be shared to improve confidence and aspiration in communities. We need more joined up approaches need to follow up on ideas e.g. from conference. 1

2 Next steps Update to Fair for All steering group and share with partners Align ideas with Poverty Challenge activity and funds Information contributes to Locality Plans: ensure this is an agenda item at next round of Locality meetings Sets context for work of Fair for All (Poverty Truth) Commission You said, we did update: action plan FFA steering group - thoughts? Review of Aye We Can conference: further conference to feed back and consider draft action plan? Reports: Cabinet? Further Conference? Poverty: What more can we do? - Draft Action Plan 1. Continue to create economic conditions to address the symptoms of poverty Continue to refine AGD proposals and lobby government Continue to promote and support the living wage locally, leading by example Continue to develop the Regional Pathfinder 2

3 2. Improve support for individuals and communities to access services Extend informal employability support in libraries outwith formal hub arrangements Recruit and train more volunteers to mentor, tutor and support job seekers TNA and NAC will continue to extend and encourage incentives for local businesses One-stop shop/community hubs should be identified and developed with Community Info Zones. Provide support to community organisations and sports clubs to offer cook/learn together opportunities. Premises may be required e.g. schools Further explore keyholding with NAFCO for community centres Extend NAC Enterprise Car Scheme to community groups The Challenge Poverty Fund and ESF should continue to be used to support the overall approach. 3. Specific interventions: Children and Young People Fair for All Officer (Poverty Truth funding from Scottish Government Social Justice Unit) will consider poverty proofing the cost of school attendance Promote school uniform exchanges in communities Continue to progress DYW Progress 1140 hours project Develop an approach to out of school care and develop an action plan Share good practice and build capacity in communities to support older people intergenerational work Ensure involvement of young people in appropriate activities e.g. locality plans and community councils, though participation by experience rather than formal mechanisms, to ensure engagement and via North Ayrshire s Child Centred Council Progress YOYP strategic group to establish and act on what matters to young people. Link with TACT to map and pilot volunteering activity with schools 3

4 4. Specific interventions: Communities Identify and progress community hubs and community buy-in, including with young people and which would act as Information Zones Share good practice and build capacity in communities, through appropriate activities such as Family Learning team activities Advertise available properties and land, and CAT process Coordinate and promote local opportunities e.g. via Carena and local events website Develop community transport and related volunteering opportunities Develop local Skills Exchanges Use Kindness work to establish risks and barriers and solutions to some issues 5. Specific Interventions: Spaces Investigate replication of Chit Chat group model in other localities to create stronger organisational place based networks Keyholding to be extended to enable more flexible use of spaces where appropriate Parklives model to be shared with other sports clubs Continue to promote litter pick and beach clean supports from Streetscene, Connected Communities and community groups Community transport initiative 4

5 6. Specific Interventions: Health and Mental Health Promote Mental Health PB opportunities in localities to encourage sharing of good practice and personal journeys Use locality forums and partnership social media platforms to share stories Create digital stories via libraries Share good practice and build capacity in communities, schools and groups to support people with MH issues Share and involve communities in DREAM Advertise local social opportunities to address isolation, stigma and loneliness Recruit volunteer buddies Establish kindness as an approach and a signifier via Carnegie UK work Recruit more peer research and workers Self-management clubs in libraries 7. Specific Interventions: Food Establish weekend HFI pilot Map available food facilities in communities Continue to develop local food networks within the Food Strategy Work with growing groups to identify market garden options and food growing opportunities Support growers and groups to develop affordable models for community events Identify opportunities, funding and partners to host community fridges Work to link Hazeldene to growing initiatives and develop a growing Academy in North Ayrshire Continue within Streetscene PB research to identify community aspirations for their environment Identify social enterprise opportunities Investigate food waste strategy in liaison with Soil Association Establish NA Big Lunch competition Audrey Sutton February

6 Background Information: Themes, Current Activity and Potential Developments Theme You said Examples of what we are doing What further actions can we take? Economy Local interventions Improve working between agencies Employability forums - joined up partnership working involving a range of services looking at changes in universal credit, employment opportunities, sharing training opportunities Better promote the available support services and opportunities Promote digital access Better Off North Ayrshire. Promote digital support opportunities Employability early intervention on job preparation and skills for work includes volunteering opportunities Develop Locality staff forums to provide better networking and service integration Local staff networks e.g. Garnock Forum = staff Chit Chat type model Create user forums to improve services (CLD is currently promoting and developing Learners Voices) Provide more money management and budgeting support This is a current focus in Adult Learning and Employability Hubs Money Matters Promote availability of money advice services, including online services, including through partners Better Off North Ayrshire NACAS 6

7 Extend use of libraries as inclusive spaces and to support employability Early intervention on job preparation and skills for work Stop short term funding for employed posts we need to commit to long term funding to create permanent jobs More engagement with local companies (reward for employing local people) Use social media platforms to get message out to services about free advertising using Irvine Beat etc: challenging poverty Establish delivery programmes to parents/community to help raise skills awareness CLASPS Provide more access to job clubs, digital participation Expand Employability Hubs in libraries to extend learning and interests Makerspaces initiative in Libraries Employability support through CLD Funding streams e.g. NAVT address this through multi-year funding Procurement policies Community benefit extended by NAC Underway via 3TFM and Irvine Beat and Cumbrae Radio Family Learning team ( ED & YE) Adult learning provision in CLD 7 Extend informal employability support in libraries outwith formal hub arrangements Recruit and train more volunteers to mentor, tutor and support job seekers TNA and NAC will continue to extend and encourage incentives Increase promotion of anti-poverty measures and available supports via media channels Promote discussion about poverty related issues e.g. radio interviews, blogs, to encourage openness Provide support to community organisations and sports clubs to offer cook/learn together opportunities. Premises may be required e.g. schools

8 Use Universal Credit as unifying catalyst for drop in support built in café, food and other support The Council should promote living wage businesses Targeted employability programmes Flexibility in operating times of community hubs Youth Services programmes Food Development Officer currently linking further organisations e.g. Foodbanks, Centrestage, BONA, Money Matters An example is the relationship between NAC and CLASPS Currently the focus for adult learning Skills for Life programme Youth Employment programme (YES) Community centres currently offer this but the cost is currently an issue. One-stop shop/community hubs should be identified and developed. NAFCO/NAC working group will progress this approach. TNA and NAC continue to extend and encourage incentives The Challenge Poverty Fund and ESF should continue to be used to support this approach. Further explore keyholding with NAFCO for community centres Regional and national interventions Exploit planning system to attract businesses Tax vacant land and keep funding locally Deliver Ayrshire Growth Deal opportunities Promote living wage businesses Best performing Planning Department in Scotland currently maximising opportunities National policy interventions required Currently working with Scottish Government to deliver projects within the deal. Part of Team North Ayrshire approach 8 Continue to refine AGD proposals and lobby government Continue to promote and support the living wage locally, leading by example

9 Affordable travel/community travel Attainment project with Young Scot and ED &YE including school travel for SMID 1 &2 Further explore and develop community transport projects e.g. with KA Leisure in the Garnock Valley Extend NAC Enterprise Car Scheme to community groups More national focus on employability skills and training The Regional Pathfinder work is maximising the role of national agencies in local interventions. Continue to develop the Regional Pathfinder Children and Young People Poverty proof schools Cost of school uniforms PEF and school fundraising is currently used to offset costs in schools Fair for All Officer (Poverty Truth funding from Scottish Government Social Justice Unit) will consider this Social enterprise to supply school uniforms (shoes). Corra Foundation school uniform exchange operates in Kilwinning Promote school uniform exchanges in communities Better match skills needs to educational opportunity help get children/young people job ready Early years, nursery and out of school care support is required E &YE and Ayrshire College and Employability and Skills are progressing this through DYW Provision of 1140 hours of funded early learning and child care to include free school lunch. Review of out of school care is ongoing. Continue to progress DYW Progress 1140 hours project Develop an out of school care action plan 9

10 Expand the types of clubs offered (not just sport) Work in schools and OAP clubs and others (intergenerational opportunities) to provide social contact to reduce social isolation. Link MAs to community groups to succession plan for future community involvement Increase Youth Services - reshape based on need and what matters Young people should take the lead in more activities i.e. SYP campaign, poverty, see it, change it Ensure all school leavers have a volunteering opportunity within North Ayrshire: Pilot a potential Promoting what the locality offer is through locality working Work ongoing with care homes e.g. St Bridget s and Anam Cara AHEAD Project in Harbourside Young People s Mental Health Toolkit Stoneyholm Mill Film Project Garnock Valley Film Project Current happens in Youth Services; and with emerging Community Development MA Youth work input to PSE classes in schools Currently services are targeted through evidence of need Potential through YOYP legacy and current Participation and Citizenship structures Employability programmes within schools college visits, applications, careers week 10 Promote community social opportunities through social media, press and in community facilities Share good practice and build capacity in communities to support older people Ensure involvement of young people in appropriate activities e.g. locality plans and community councils, though participation by experience rather than formal mechanisms, to ensure engagement Progress YOYP strategic group to establish and act on what matters to young people. Link with TACT to map and pilot volunteering activity with schools

11 link with Locality Priorities as per Get Connected model Social enterprise schools (Nails, upcycling initiatives etc) Encourage kindness Carnegie UK research project in relation to Kindness in North Ayrshire Progress research project and action learning Communities More involvement through community centres and more community collaboration is required NAC/NAFCO working group re-established February 2018 Succession planning with young people in communities Refresh of Community Councils Work with NAFCO to progress community hubs and community buyin, including with young people Support of Community Empowerment Unit in localities Identify venues that could operate as Community Information Zones Locality asset mapping Community Centres and Libraries Work with NAFCO to progress community hubs which would act as Information Zones Support existing groups to run programmes Project Kilbirnie Community Shed is an example Share good practice and build capacity in communities More male campaigns to get men into helping in communities would be helpful More community ownership/involvement Harbour Arts Centre programmes Family Learning Team DigiDabble promotion and involvement in libraries Community asset transfer policy is available and being promoted and supported. Share good practice and build capacity in communities, through appropriate activities Family Learning team activities Advertise available properties and land, and CAT process 11

12 would make projects more likely to succeed More public, informal social events should be organised Marketing of needs/ skills for volunteers and give more recognition and support Give people permission to do more and remove barriers - Disclosure/PVG are barriers. All communities offer informal opportunities, especially in libraries and community centre cafes; better publication and more informality could respond to this. Book clubs in libraries Drop ins at weekends in community centres e.g. Cameron Centre Social Isolation programme TACT already undertaking activity, including volunteer opportunities and database; development of awareness and local activity ongoing. CLD provide training in community activism Coordinate and promote local opportunities e.g. via Carena and local events website Develop community transport volunteering opportunities Develop local Skills Exchanges Use Kindness work to establish risks and barriers and solutions to some issues Environment Places Set up market gardens Oasis Café asset transfer Work with growing groups to identify market garden options Utilise free green spaces to grow community gardens using volunteers Eglinton Park Breaking Ground Project (mental health) Ranger work in communities e.g. biodiversity projects, beach cleans Our Natural Health Service pilot Progress in communities via Streetscene PB work 12

13 Investment from energy companies and government for solar panels in council homes Lynn Glen Housing Housing to continue to progress Share resources/assets more Friends of Groups and skills exchanges Chit Chat group model: investigate replication in other localities to create stronger organisational place based networks Spaces (libraries, community centres) We should make them more welcoming, open to all and open longer Community Info Zones know where to go and what to do in various situations - food, welfare and employability Look at extending opening hours with partner input to offer additional services. Co-location of services Community centres and libraries have co-located Employability Hubs and a wide range of services e.g. Macmillan Cancer Support Keyholding to be extended to enable more flexible use of spaces where appropriate (through NAFCO working group) Parklives should take place in more communities KA Leisure supports this where community groups wish to deliver and support it Parklives model to be shared with other sports clubs 13

14 Litter picks and beach cleans Currently supported by Streetscene and Coastwatch across North Ayrshire Continue to promote litter pick and beach clean supports from Streetscene, Connected Communities and community groups Volunteer transport Ad hoc arrangements in place Community transport initiative currently being investigated. Mental health Challenge stigma Share inspiring stories Inter-generational activities and address social isolation Feel good, do good PB YOYP plan Locality priorities Service users service design in HSCP Volunteers at Woodland View L.P Facebook and website HSCP Patient groups Librarians trained in digital storytelling techniques AHEAD Project Involved! Group Parent/baby cafes Craft cafés Mind and be Active (Scottish Govt and KA Leisure) Project Kilbirnie 14 Promote MH PB opportunities in localities to encourage sharing of good practice and personal journeys Use locality forums and partnership social media platforms to share stories Create digital stories in libraries Share good practice and build capacity in communities, schools and groups to support people with MH issues Share and involve communities in DREAM

15 Dalry Hub Irvine Giving Something Back Provide a reason to leave the house Café Solace Fullarton Connexions Advertise local social opportunities Recruit volunteer buddies Encourage small neighbourly acts of kindness Hope Project Faith and community roups across NA Establish kindness as an approach and a signifier via Carnegie UK work More support for mental health conditions Community Connectors and MH Community Practitioners Peer research and workers Recruit more peer research and workers Self-management clubs in libraries Self-management clubs in libraries CBT Online Food HFI Scope activities in each locality over weekends to ensure all activities have a food element and they are fed with dignity and respect Food Development Post & Fair for All post - identified 3 partner agencies to come on board within Irvine more to follow. Centrestage activity and model Establish weekend HFI pilot Continue to develop local food networks within the Food Strategy Elderly lunch clubs 15

16 Breakfast clubs in all schools and rota for Saturday and Sundays and after school dinner clubs whole family events Faith Group lunch clubs Out of school holiday meals Honesty box for fresh veg, pay what you can (different locations) Replicate good practice Parklives - community owned, practical training - profit back to the community Bring people together, helping each other, BBQ. Buy a community fridge or freezer and collect fresh fruit and veg for community and foodbank Fullarton Hub Whitlees Community Centre Ardeer Community Centre Argyle Community centre Range of growing groups e.g. 3 Towns Growers, Eglinton, Garnock Valley, Largs and Fairlie Growers have different opportunities available Parklives Café Solace Craft Cafés Dementia Cafes GV allotments BBQ Three Towns Growers events Support growers and groups to develop affordable models for events Identify opportunities, funding and partners to host community fridge Production 16

17 Work with park rangers / community development team to develop a qualification for grow your own. Redundant workspaces converted to food production Urban farms landscaping for food production and not just grass Instead of paying agencies to cut grass in public spaces put money towards planting vegetables Food Development Officer is investigating in liaison with Soil Association Centrestage industrial kitchen at Dundonald Streetscene PB Streetscene PB is addressing this in Three Towns PB pilot Work to link Hazeldene to growing initiatives and develop a growing Academy in North Ayrshire Map available food facilities in communities Continue within Streetscene PB research Continue within Streetscene PB research Procurement Develop a community store Food bank and Fair Share have investigated. Identify social enterprise opportunities Contact all food providers in locality to coordinate food waste and to distribute to families. Community Big Lunch Links between NHS and NAC catering and procurement in development 3 Towns Growers do this on site Various Investigate food waste strategy in liaison with Soil Association Establish NA Big Lunch competition Audrey Sutton February